Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
The city of which Mr. MacInnes writes [in City of Spades] is London and the Spades are its Coloured inhabitants…. Mr. MacInnes tells his story t...
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Critical Essay by L. J. Davis
[In Three Years to Play Colin MacInnes] has attempted to bring off a major Shakespearean tour de force, and while there is certainly no harm in trying, his effort is cri...
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Critical Essay by D.a.n. Jones
The publication of [Out of the Way: Later Essays] by Colin MacInnes (1914–76) reflects a feeling that he may be remembered for his essays in the weekly journals ...
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Critical Essay by Roy Kerridge
[In the essays collected in Out of the Way] there is no trace of 'middle-class prejudices',… [for] the generosity [Colin MacInnes] showed to anyone...
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Critical Essay by Pamela Hansford Johnson
City of Spades is a perfectly straight, unaffected story about a cheerful, bounding Nigerian boy and his life and downfall in London. The lodging-houses, the...
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Critical Essay by Anthony Boucher
[Events and relationships are] a mite too self-consciously arranged and allegorical in Colin MacInnes' novel. "Mr. Love and Justice" is actually...
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Critical Essay by Eric Moon
[The] fiction of Colin MacInnes has remained virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic.
The three novels that make up [The London Novels of Colin MacInnes], and wh...
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Critical Essay by T. G. Rosenthal
City of Spades is MacInnes's third novel, but his first good one. His To the Victors the Spoils was about the European war and, unfortunately, contrived to co...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
In many ways Mr. Colin MacInnes's area has always been something one might call the romance of manners. Whether he is exploring London's ...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
